I've tried it with Slackware 12.2. It worked fine, even without X11, but I couldn't get the transcoder to work.Compiled and installed mplayer, ffmpeg, x264 but to no avail. I can only stream PS3 compatible files under Slackware. With my Mac OS X Box the transcoder works great.I haven't investigated this issue further, but it would be great to use my old Compaq 4x Xeon Server as media server and transcoder

As long you have mplayer and ffmpeg compiled for any revision of Slackware you should be good to go.Currently using Slackware 12.2 as well - with ffmpeg-mt-git-661ca40 and mplayer-mt-svn_r29333_4.2.4works fairly well. only have problem with certain awkward framerates and VobSubs (which are still not supported under Linux)